II. Wealth Distribution
Comparisons

A. Generally more unequal than
income. In the United States, for example, the richest
1 percent of households received about 9 percent of all income in 1986,
but they owned about 31 percent of total wealth.

B.Data
sources
- Best are consumer wealth surveys, but we usually must rely on data
collected from a small segment of the population in estate tax and wealth
tax returns. In U.S. estimates, survey data generally reveal more
inequality than estate tax data.